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Paula Reed Ward / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Flight 93 memorial decried as Islam symbol — Memorial's crescent shape criticized as inappropriate — There's a growing outcry that one element of the newly chosen Flight 93 National Memorial represents Islam and is a slap in the face to the passengers and crew members who died on the hijacked plane four years ago.
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The Liberal Avenger:WINGNUT OUTRAGE OVER FLIGHT 93 MEMORIAL
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Reuters:
Firms with White House ties get Katrina contracts — FEMA taps Halliburton subsidiary, Shaw Group, Bechtel for cleanup — WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration's first disaster relief …
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Lorie Byrd / PoliPundit.com:
WE WILL NOT FORGET — SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 — "The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness, and a quiet, unyielding anger. These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.
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Ian / The Political Teen:9/11 - Never Forget — The people who committed these acts …
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Lorie Byrd / PoliPundit.com:COMMENTARY - September 11 — Below is just a sampling …
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Hullabaloo:
Sealing Them In — A couple of days ago I wrote about the "single worst decision" that was made in the wake of the hurricane. I was wrong; there were actually two horrible decisions that created one horrible Catch-22. — The first part of the catch was the decision to keep relief workers with food and water out of the city.
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Marcus Mabry / Newsweek:
Eye of the Political Storm — A new NEWSWEEK poll suggests President Bush could become Katrina's next casualty. — Sept. 10, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina claimed her first political casualty Friday. Michael Brown, the head of FEMA, the federal disaster readiness and response agency …
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Will Lester / Associated Press:
President's Approval Rating Dips Below 40 — WASHINGTON - President Bush's job approval has dipped below 40 percent for the first time in the AP-Ipsos poll, reflecting widespread doubts about his handling of gasoline prices and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
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truthout.org:
Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans — New Orleans - Heavily armed paramilitary mercenaries from the Blackwater private security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, are openly patrolling the streets of New Orleans. Some of the mercenaries say they have been "deputized" …
Gordon Russell / Times-Picayune Breaking News Weblog:
Mayor Nagin speaks out — In a stark reminder of how drastically Hurricane Katrina has impacted the lives of New Orleanians, Mayor Ray Nagin has purchased a home for his family in Dallas and enrolled his young daughter in school there. — Nagin, who spoke with The Times-Picayune by telephone from Dallas …
Atlas Shrugs:
SHOTGUN SEAN - POSTERBOY FOR NRA/SECOND AMENDMENT — I don't even have a category for this moron. Thank G-d for the New York Post though, they run images the MSM wouldn't dare. — "Actor Sean Penn lugs a shotgun through the flooded streets of New Orleans as if he is starring in an action thriller - but he is not.
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Anita Kumar / St. Petersburg Times:
'Average' past trails troubled FEMA chief — WASHINGTON - In 2002, a pair of FBI agents showed up at a small, well-known law firm near Oklahoma City, asking questions about Mike Brown, a former employee being considered for a job at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
William L. Taylor / New York Review of Books:
John Roberts: The Nominee — The most intriguing question about John Roberts is what led him as a young person whose success in life was virtually assured by family wealth and academic achievement to enlist in a political campaign designed to deny opportunities for success to those who lacked his advantages.
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Times of London:
Ditch Holocaust day, advisers urge Blair — ADVISERS appointed by Tony Blair after the London bombings are proposing to scrap the Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day because it is regarded as offensive to Muslims. — They want to replace it with a Genocide Day that would recognise the mass murder …
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Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Nick Coleman: The new American experiment: No heart — Everyone is playing the blame game on Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans, and we at the top end of the Mississippi River can join the fun by pointing fingers close to home. — Part of what drowned New Orleans is a political ideology determined …
Jack Shafer / Slate:
Chief Justice Rehnquist's Drug Habit — The man in full. — As we usher the 16th chief justice of the United States to his celestial reward, let us remember him in full. He labored successfully to return power to the states, treated colleagues with warmth and respect …
Seattle Times:
Local FEMA chief had little disaster experience — John Pennington, the official in charge of federal disaster response in the Northwest, was a four-term Republican state representative who ran a mom-and-pop coffee company in Cowlitz County when then-Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn helped him get his federal post.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / popularmechanics.com:
Watch Out Hollywood — The entertainment industry's real threat isn't piracy, it's backyard Spielbergs armed with digital moviemaking gear. — Photo illustration by CJ Burton — 4 5 Next — Photo illustration by CJ Burton — Hollywood is in a panic over digital entertainment on the Internet.
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